Sugarloaf Fire Tower Historic District

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Sugarloaf Fire Tower Historic District encompasses a collection of historic buildings located near the summit of Sugarloaf Mountain, a hill 1150 feet in elevation in the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest of northeastern Stone County, Arkansas.”
Wikipedia article Sugarloaf Fire Tower Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1995 · category: District · built in 1937.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. End of Forest Service Rd. 1123, Ozark--St. Francis NF, Calico Rock, 72519
When was it listed? September 1995
Category. district
Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
District. District 1
When was it built? 1937
National Register reference number. 94001615 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Sugarloaf Fire Tower Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,650 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 29 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	29
Debris and open burning	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	MCGOWN
12 September 2000	Natural	9.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CHRIS
11 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1996	Natural	15 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	HOG
6 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	FREEMAN

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sugarloaf Fire Tower Historic District: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stone County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	North Sylamore Creek Bridge	6.6 miles	2010
	Miles Jeffery Barn	7.1 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001615 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stone County	All 58 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.